"Gold Rush" The Biggest Gold Weighs - Gold Rush Special

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 Let's get down to business. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,480 NARRATOR: On this Gold Rush... 3 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:07,680 Need a bigger pan. 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,480 ..the greatest paydays... We broke the scale! 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,280 ..in Gold Rush history. 6 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,080 (TONY SPEAKING) 7 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,200 From the biggest... (LAUGHTER) 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:19,960 This is definitely a record breaker. 9 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,880 ..to the most surprising. 10 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,320 That's a (BLEEP) beauty. 11 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,760 (TONY SPEAKING) 12 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:31,640 These are the gold weighs that change lives. And for the first time... 13 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,640 PARKER: That's just over 5 million bucks. 14 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,320 ..we reveal the total multimillion dollar gold haul. 15 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,600 We earn this (BLEEP) with blood, sweat and some tears. 16 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,720 From the last 12 years... 17 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,400 (CHEERING) 18 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,560 Best (BLEEP) crew in the Klondike! 19 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,960 2012, Big Nugget Mine, Alaska. 20 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,800 Hey, uh, careful on that one. I put a little too much in there. 21 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:09,960 All right, I'll baby it. Good man. Hope it'll make it over there. 22 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,840 Seventeen-year-old Parker Schnabel is six weeks 23 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,720 into his second season mining for gold. 24 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,400 His best weekly haul ever is 25 ounces. 25 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,760 But this young, ambitious mine boss has only just got started. 26 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,640 PARKER: So, I know you've been sitting in a truck all day, 27 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:29,080 but it's for good reason cos we're going for 50 ounces this week. 28 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:30,760 50 ounces? Whoa. 29 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,880 We'll need a lot of dirt, so keep doing your thing. You got it. 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,280 2012 prices, 50 ounces is worth $80,000, 31 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,240 almost double what Parker made in his first season. 32 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:47,480 But the gold is no vanity project. 33 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,800 And he needs the money to pay for a road to access his Smith Creek claim. 34 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,960 Virgin ground he believes is filled with big gold. 35 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,600 We have to run a lot of dirt to get 50 ounces. 36 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,320 But we're going to. 37 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,120 Today, we'll put about 1,000 yards through our plant. 38 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,200 This plant's never seen 1,000 yards in a week before, let alone in a day. 39 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,960 I don't know if the plant's gonna be able to handle that. 40 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,680 To race through the pay, Parker cranks his grandpa's 26-year-old wash plant. 41 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,400 (MACHINE RATTLING) There's a new rattle. 42 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:32,074 43 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,240 There's a big part of the bearing right there. 44 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,400 The extra load has destroyed a bearing 45 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,520 on one of the trommel's guide wheels... 46 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,840 Cut the power. 47 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,200 ..forcing Parker to shut down. 48 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:53,720 The bearing on the upper side here completely went out on us. 49 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,000 I got to change this outside bearing right here. 50 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,400 What... what do you want to do? I think I'm gonna have to torch it off. 51 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,760 This is no easy bush-fix. 52 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:11,880 Fail, and Parker risks missing his target of 50 ounces. 53 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,520 There's the broken piece. 54 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:19,520 And then there's part of the bearings... (CHUCKLES) what's left of them. 55 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,560 I'd rather be able to set the new one in and screw it right back down. 56 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,800 We're ready to go. Let's start it up. 57 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,480 Stand back. 58 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,040 Look at that. 59 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,600 Having lost most of the day, 60 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,880 Parker pushes on through the night to reach his 1,000 yard a day target. 61 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,760 It's tough right now cos, you know, we're tired, 62 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:52,640 we've been working long hours. 63 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:54,840 You can't see really cos it's pretty dark. 64 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,520 You know, this plant's being pushed hard. 65 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,680 Parker pulls the mats... Shut it down. 66 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,160 ..and gathers his crew for a career defining gold weigh. 67 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,080 MITCH: I think it's definitely gonna come down to the wire for sure. 68 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,760 Right. 69 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,040 We worked real hard. 70 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,680 We worked together, and hopefully, the results will show that. 71 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:24,960 Parker's biggest weigh in so far is 25 ounces. 72 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,520 MAN: 30, 32, 35. 73 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,920 55. 55 ounces. 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,520 In one week. MAN: That's pretty exciting, guys. 75 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,440 Worth $88,000... 76 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,880 PARKER: That's pretty impressive right there. 77 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,720 ..the biggest payday by far of his young career. 78 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,400 We'll start working on Smith Creek. We're cracking that open. 79 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,360 Yeah, it's pretty relieving. 80 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:57,480 This game-changing gold funds the road to the nugget rich Smith Creek. 81 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,360 Secures Parker a season total of 192 ounces... 82 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,160 Got to go where the gold is. The Yukon is the place to be. 83 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,840 ..and propels him to the Klondike... 84 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,520 All right, let's get down to business. MAN: Yeah. 85 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,200 And that's $3 million right there on the table. 86 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:25,960 ..where Parker goes on to record the three biggest weekly gold weighs on Gold Rush. 87 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,600 In 2018, 955 ounces. 88 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,160 When I came up here six years ago, that was the dream. 89 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,560 At the time, worth over a million dollars. 90 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:41,520 In 2021... 91 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,400 MAN: And we're still going. Keep her going, keep her going. 92 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,080 (ALL CHEERING) 93 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,880 ..a staggering 1,168 ounces. 94 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,800 A $2 million payday. 95 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,400 PARKER: Don't drop it. 96 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:02,040 And in 2020, an all-time scale busting gold weigh. 97 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,480 Are they like 200 apiece or 300 apiece or... 98 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,880 They're like 500 apiece. PARKER: What? 99 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,880 ..2,294 ounces 100 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,720 worth nearly $4.4 million. 101 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,800 (LAUGHING) That's like the biggest one we've ever had, isn't it? 102 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,120 Oh, yeah. This is definitely a record breaker. 103 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,120 RICK: Yeah, it's getting colder and colder every morning. 104 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,880 I can't even see out the windshield anymore. There's so much frost. 105 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,120 In his first season as a mine boss, 106 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,560 Rick Ness is chasing the dream of striking it rich 107 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,400 with a crew made up of friends from home. 108 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,560 RICK: We're so close to our target, I just don't know what to do anymore. 109 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,040 I mean, we've exhausted all of our ground. 110 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,120 Rick needs a final 27-ounce gold weigh 111 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:57,760 to hit his 1,000-ounce goal and send everyone home with gold in their pockets. 112 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:00,400 But winter is closing in. 113 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,600 He's out of thawed pay and his wash plant is shut down. 114 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,440 RICK: We ain't giving up. 115 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,440 I got somebody flying in today to help me out. 116 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:16,680 For the final push, Rick leans on the one person who will always answer his call. 117 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:18,920 Hey. (BLEEP) Arriving in style? 118 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,680 Yeah, well, you know. How you doin', Dad? 119 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,000 It's good to see you, man. You too. 120 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,480 I'm here to help. That's awesome. 121 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:32,040 Rick's dad has over 30 years' experience operating heavy equipment. 122 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,600 RICK: We're short 27 ounces. 123 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,160 Goddamn it. You've got to get that (BLEEP) 1,000 ounces. 124 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,440 Perhaps a second look at your drill charts there and see where you... 125 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,920 See where your best veins are. Maybe you got some more left that you can... 126 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,600 ..quickly access. 127 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,840 Where that pile of overburden is, that's where the bedrock came up 128 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,120 and that's where all the best drill holes were. 129 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,240 And it is where we did our best gold. 130 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,960 I'll jump on that D9 and give it my best shot. 131 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:07,000 They plan to open a small extension to the cut in the hope it has enough thawed pay. 132 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:11,960 And in less than no time, Rick Senior 133 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,920 RICK OVER RADIO: Let's fire up Durt Reynolds. 134 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,920 I want to make sure we get all the dirt run through the plant. 135 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,400 This paydirt's still frozen and full of chunks, but 136 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,280 I don't even give a (BLEEP) , we're gonna run it anyways. 137 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,280 We're into the minuses. Everything's got to keep moving. 138 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,960 Even us. 139 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,160 RYAN OVER RADIO: Looks like we're not feeding right. What the (BLEEP) happened? 140 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,360 I'm guessing that chunky (BLEEP) got stuck in there and froze up. 141 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,520 We're not feeding the plant. 142 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,560 Frozen pay has clogged the hopper feeder. 143 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,200 To try and dislodge the blockage, 144 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,160 Rick turns up the conveyors to top speed. 145 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:02,840 We just hit it full speed. 146 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,160 We'll know if it's gonna come loose, cos if it ain't (BLEEP) freed up, 147 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,800 it's gonna tear that belt. 148 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:10,480 Ben... 149 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:12,160 bump that (BLEEP). 150 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,800 Oh, it don't sound good. Ben... bump that... 151 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,040 One more time. 152 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,600 RICK: There she goes. BEN: There she goes. 153 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:28,080 Holy (BLEEP) , look at those big (BLEEP) chunks. 154 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,000 I think those are the two that are really blocking it. 155 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:32,680 RICK: Whoo! 156 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,040 Four hours later, the pay from the extension runs out. 157 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,680 RYAN: This is the last bucket of paydirt for the year. 158 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,760 All right. Shove her on through and we'll shut it down. 159 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:46,440 Copy that. 160 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,000 Rick shuts down for the final time this season 161 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,800 and gathers the crew to see if they've hit their 1,000-ounce goal. 162 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,080 Oh. Oh, yeah. 163 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:00,840 So, we had 27 ounces to get. 164 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,360 Might be in that jar. I think it's time to find out. 165 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,600 That's 20. 166 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:12,360 MAN 1: Looking good. MAN 2: Yeah. There's our 27 ounces. 167 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,320 (ALL CHEERING) 168 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,160 There's another. (MAN BLEEPS) 169 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,960 (ALL CHEERING) 170 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,840 The final gold weigh, 132.49 ounces. 171 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:31,120 At the time, worth $159,000. 172 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,480 Blew by it. 173 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,800 Rick's biggest ever gold weigh... 174 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:43,480 propels him 100 ounces over his 1,000 ounce season goal. 175 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,040 RICK: You guys deserve all the credit. 176 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,320 (ALL CHEERING) 177 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,040 The following season Rick vacates the Klondike... 178 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,000 (RICK SPEAKING) 179 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,600 ..to hunt Keno's famous monster nuggets... 180 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,600 What? ..and hits the jackpot. 181 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:03,560 That's a (BLEEP) beauty, like that's worth some serious money. 182 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:09,880 ..with a 1.5 ounce nugget, the biggest ever found on Gold Rush. 183 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:14,120 And in 2021, Rick goes from strength to strength... 184 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,280 106 plus 100. That's 206. 185 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,160 ..with his three biggest weekly gold weighs... 186 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:25,840 That's 315 ounces on the week. 187 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:29,920 This'll sound really good. 188 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,760 Oh. 189 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,280 That is by far, biggest gold total for a week. 190 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,920 It's almost 400 ounces, 393. 191 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,160 (BLEEP) yeah. 192 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:47,240 ..taking his career gold total so far to nearly 5,000 ounces 193 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,320 worth nearly $8 million. 194 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,000 Yeah, it's... It's a good feeling. 195 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,160 NARRATOR: For maverick gold miner Tony Beets, 196 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:06,080 the secret to his biggest gold weighs lies in the past. 197 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,600 (TONY SPEAKING) 198 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:13,480 MAN: It's huge. 199 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:15,160 (TONY SPEAKING) 200 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:16,840 MAN: It looks really nice. 201 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:24,920 Powered by a single engine and needing just a two-man crew, 202 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,200 the cost-efficient dredge uses buckets to scoop up pay 203 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:34,440 running it through a trommel before shooting tailings out the back. 204 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:38,680 Tony believes dredging for gold will deliver big profits. 205 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,120 (TONY SPEAKING) 206 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:57,680 The dredge is dismantled and rebuilt at Tony's Indian River claim to the tune of $1 million. 207 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:02,840 I'm christening you Minnie's ATM! 208 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,200 (TONY SPEAKING) 209 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:14,800 In 2015, Tony attempts to wake the beast for the first time in 30 years. 210 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,600 MAN: There it goes. It's going. 211 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:29,840 Hey! Hey! 212 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:31,520 Don't be pulling over too hard. 213 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,080 Stop. Stop. 214 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,920 The bucket line slipped off the tip of the ladder, 215 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,200 it's like losing a track on the excavator. 216 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,200 We've got to get all equipment rounded up 217 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,960 in the rigging to try and pull it back on there. 218 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:58,440 Foreman Gene Cheeseman brings in a pipe layer to haul the bucket ladder back into place. 219 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:00,440 You need to be right alongside of here. 220 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:15,640 Pull. 221 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,680 Ok. You guys ready to run it in reverse? 222 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:30,920 Just keep her coming. 223 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,960 We did it. I can't believe that. 224 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,400 Mike, let's go ahead and get the water going and get everything spinning. 225 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,600 After a three-hour delay, 226 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,880 the dredge is back on track and catching gold. 227 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,600 We're getting water going again so you can get to run it again. 228 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,640 (TONY SPEAKING) Ok. 229 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,600 Tony runs the dredge for 20 hours. 230 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,280 TONY: Shut it down! 231 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,040 Which will reveal whether his million-dollar gamble 232 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,560 on the 75-year-old dredge has paid off? 233 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:17,160 (TONY SPEAKING) 234 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:31,240 To turn a profit, Tony needs the dredge to produce an ounce an hour. 235 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:36,520 (TONY SPEAKING) 236 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,080 MAN: It's 21 ounces. 237 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,320 (TONY SPEAKING) 238 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,040 WOMAN: I'm impressed. I'm really am impressed with what you guys done. 239 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,440 So, it catches that is no doubt, then... 240 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,600 We know it's there. We've proven it. 241 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,560 (TONY SPEAKING) 242 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,920 Over the next four seasons mining... 243 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,640 WOMAN: Three hundred. That's pretty amazing. 244 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,680 ..Tony's dredge produces record breaking gold weighs. 245 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,680 (TONY SPEAKING) 246 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,520 WOMAN: 532.6. 247 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,080 ..amassing almost 6,000 ounces 248 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:23,040 in 2022 worth over $10 million. 249 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,720 Holy (BLEEP). 250 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,600 2012... 251 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,760 Let the game begin. 252 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:40,920 Fred Hertz starts his second mine at Porcupine Creek 253 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,760 with the goal of putting 160 ounces on the scale. 254 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,520 To help, he takes a gamble on a rookie... 255 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,320 Hey, Fred. How are you? 256 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,880 I'm all right. How are you, Dustin? I'm doing good. 257 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,800 ..his son, Dustin. 258 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:01,480 DUSTIN: Fred put it in my head that there's some ancient waterfall somewhere around here, 259 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:06,400 and as soon as we find the bottom of it, we'll never have to work again. 260 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,640 With dreams of riches untold... 261 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:13,120 FRED: All I can see is gold soup going out of there 262 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,000 ..the team excavate the ancient waterfall 263 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:21,800 in the hope the deeply buried plunge pools contain a jackpot of gold. 264 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,480 DUSTIN: Look at all those flakes. 265 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,480 Early signs show they're digging in the right spot. 266 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,720 FRED: We're gonna need every bit we can get. 267 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,120 Fred spends a month relentlessly digging down 268 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,800 betting he'll strike gold before he hit bedrock. 269 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,760 Oh. Crying out loud. 270 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,240 (BLEEP) 271 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:56,600 That's it. We're done. 272 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:01,600 The material is just too hard, and this thing doesn't have enough power to just continue. 273 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,600 We're at the limits of what the equipment can do. 274 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,680 We can't go back down there no more. 275 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:11,480 One hundred feet down, Fred is forced to stop 276 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:16,160 just 20 ounces short of their 160-ounce season target. 277 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,240 But son Dustin isn't ready to give up. 278 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,040 DUSTIN: I don't think we have enough gold. 279 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:23,880 I got one last thing I can try. 280 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,560 I might dredge... I might dredge the bottom of the hole. 281 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:33,920 Dustin brings in his mini dredge, a suction wash plant designed to catch gold 282 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,960 in difficult to reach plunge pools. 283 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,960 DUSTIN: It's our last ditch effort right now. 284 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,040 FRED: You want nuggets? 285 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,520 Argh! My whole body's numb right now. 286 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,440 (SIGHS) Oh, Lord. 287 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,480 To hit their 160 ounce season target... 288 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,160 Hey, guys. 289 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,440 ...success depends on Dustin's last ditch effort. 290 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,080 Well, 291 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,480 fellas, 292 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:22,600 163 ounces... (GASPS) Oh, we made it. 293 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,640 ..and change. 294 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,360 Oh, my gosh. Can you believe that? 295 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,160 Look at that. Oh, I was so worried. 296 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,760 ..worth $260,000. 297 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,560 FRED: I'm proud of you guys. 298 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,440 I'm proud of my team. 299 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,520 WOMAN: Thanks, guys. FRED: We got it. 300 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,320 McKinley Creek, Alaska, 301 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,160 after hitting gold at the ancient waterfall, 302 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:53,360 Fred and Dustin head up mountain to search for the motherlode. in the raging white waters. 303 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,000 FRED: We're the only rednecks crazy enough to do this. 304 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,880 They scour deep ravines and freezing plunge pools. 305 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,840 (DUSTIN OVER RADIO) Find that gold, man. 306 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,280 And their bone-chilling hard work pays off. 307 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:10,400 Get the (BLEEP) out of here. Yeah. 308 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,000 FRED: Wow. 309 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:19,120 Pulling in over 160 ounces of gold nuggets. 310 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,800 We found gold. 311 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:23,250 00:20:25.240 -- 00:20:29.560 In the race to put millions in gold on the scales... 312 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,040 Look at all that good stuff. Wow. 313 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,400 ..not every miner... You guys ready? 314 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:39,080 ..has a big first season. 0.36. 315 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:43,160 Some hope to find redemption in their second year. 316 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,800 FRED LEWIS: Right now, I'm all in. 317 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,480 I have nothing left in my life to liquidate to make this happen. 318 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:57,200 Having banked just six ounces in his first season mining in Oregon, 319 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:02,680 ex-Special Forces medic Fred Lewis heads to the gold-rich Klondike. 320 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,360 FRED LEWIS: This is how we're gonna vindicate ourselves 321 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,840 and prove to everybody that we can mine. 322 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,760 If Fred can't deliver gold here, his mining career will be over. 323 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,320 FRED LEWIS: Keep putting pay through the sluice 324 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,040 and getting gold out the other end. 325 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,760 What the (BLEEP)? (GRUNTS) 326 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,280 No, it's (BLEEPED). 327 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:43,720 (BLEEP) damn it. 328 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,160 Hey, guys, we just threw a track on this (BLEEPING) excavator, 329 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,360 so I'm gonna need some help over here right away. 330 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,280 JB: This is a big headache right here. 331 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:02,880 In charge of fixing the track, former US Army mechanic JB Mayer. 332 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,960 We have a tanker's worst nightmare in the military, and that's a thrown track. 333 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,400 The chain on a bicycle, best way to describe it, 334 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,520 except this chain weighs much, much more than... 335 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,200 than a bicycle chain. (CHUCKLING) 336 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,200 JB: All right. Now hook it on this tooth. 337 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,760 Curl up a little bit. 338 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,320 Ok. 339 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,080 All right, let's get out of the way. 340 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,680 Oh, (BLEEP). 341 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,360 (BLEEP) 342 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,880 Oh. 343 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,600 Stand back. Hold up! 344 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,640 FRED LEWIS: I knew that was gonna happen. 345 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,560 Yeah. 346 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,240 We're close as hell now, man. 347 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,240 Yeah. (BLEEP) All right! 348 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,040 WOMAN: Are we on? JB: Yeah. 349 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:13,960 WOMAN: Heck yeah. Let's do this. 350 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,040 FRED LEWIS: Find some gold. JB: All right. 351 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,600 After almost a full week of sluicing, 352 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,880 Fred shuts down for his first Klondike gold weigh. 353 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,840 FRED LEWIS: Did it light? 354 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,120 JB: It wants to. 355 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,000 How many green berets does it take to start a fire? 356 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,520 The gold on the scales will determine 357 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,240 if Fred can continue his gold mining dream. 358 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,680 FRED LEWIS: The hard work we put in, the hard work we're gonna put in... 359 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,480 is for this gold that we're about to see. 360 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:56,640 I don't feel like we're... greenhorns anymore. 361 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,360 I feel like we're mining. Oh, yeah. 362 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,080 I just want to go see how much it is. 363 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,760 WOMAN: Yeah, let's... Let's do it. 364 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,840 Are you guys ready? 365 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,600 MAN: Oh, hell yeah. I'm nervous. 366 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,280 (ALL GROANING) 367 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,360 FRED LEWIS: All right. One, two, 368 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,840 three, 369 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,960 four, 370 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,520 five, six. MAN: Come on, baby. 371 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,800 WOMAN: Keep going. MAN: Keep going, keep going. 372 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,000 Seven. Seven. Oh, come on. Keep going. 373 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,680 (ALL LAUGHING) 374 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,480 FRED LEWIS: That's awesome. 8.4 ounces. 375 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:47,560 In one week, Fred banks more gold than he did in his entire first season. 376 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,280 FRED LEWIS: We earned this (BLEEP) with blood, sweat and some tears. 377 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:54,000 This was a fight, man. The whole time. This was a fight. 378 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:03,720 The Klondike is one of the richest gold hotspots in the world. 379 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:08,480 Since gold was first discovered here in 1896, 380 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,480 miners have pulled out around 20 million ounces. 381 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:17,680 By modern equivalence, a staggering $36 billion. 382 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,120 October 2013, 383 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,400 19-year-old Parker Schnabel 384 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,480 is shutting down at the end of his first season in the Klondike. 385 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,400 Today is the last day of running for us, 386 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:38,480 and until we put it on a scale, I don't think we're gonna know what's there. 387 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,160 Mining ground leased from Tony Beets, 388 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,000 Parker sets an ambitious 800-ounce goal. 389 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:50,600 To hit it, he needs his final gold weigh to be his biggest ever, 390 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,440 over 170 ounces. 391 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,960 Sorry to keep you guys waiting. 392 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,840 We didn't get 800 ounces. 393 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,360 We got 836. 394 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,240 (ALL CHEERING) 395 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,880 So, we pulled over $1,000,000 worth of gold out of the ground this season. 396 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,680 (MAN SPEAKING) 397 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,400 (TONY SPEAKING) 398 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,680 MAN 1: That's amazing. (TONY SPEAKING) 399 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,120 Parker's crew head home happy... 400 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:33,080 ..but as always, the teenage mine boss is hungry for more. 401 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,920 I mean, I still got some fight left in me. 402 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,480 What do you mean by that? There is one goal we haven't hit. 403 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,560 We could go for 1,000. 404 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,240 Yeah. 405 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,520 I mean, that's the big one. Good way to end it. 406 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,760 Are you in? I'm in. 407 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,120 A thousand ounces, baby. Let's do it. 408 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,560 Determined to hit the new 1,000-ounce goal... 409 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,360 ..Parker and Rick fight on deep into winter. 410 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,360 PARKER: I mean, I could go home right now 411 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,680 and put 836 ounces of gold in front of my grandpa. 412 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,880 But why not wait ten days and put 1,000 in front of him. 413 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,680 All right? That's what I want to do. 414 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,160 The race is on right now. 415 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,000 We've got two trucks and we've got two people. 416 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,080 So, I'm kind of hot seat between machines today. 417 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,120 I don't have time to truck this overburden gravel out of here. 418 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,720 So, I'm just I got to just keep kind of tossing it off to the side as far as I can get it. 419 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:51,520 Oh. (BLEEP) Oh. 420 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,120 No! No, no. Oh, man. 421 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,080 Easy. Easy. 422 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,840 (BLEEP) machine! 423 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,480 I'm gonna definitely have to be a little more careful. 424 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,320 And two guys mining like this is just (BLEEP) stupid. 425 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,920 You know, we have to find a couple of people if we're gonna make this work. 426 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,320 With most miners already home for winter, 427 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,520 Parker seeks help from the only person 428 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,840 he knows crazy enough to still be in the Yukon. 429 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,920 PARKER: So right now I'm going to Tony's. 430 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,600 It's tough asking him for help, 431 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,760 but we just need to get a good final season push right here. 432 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,520 You know, we've got ground, but we just don't have the people to keep doing it. 433 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,520 MINNIE: I know somebody. (TONY SPEAKING) 434 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,200 You. 435 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,720 Well, you're all done. You sit on your butt all day. 436 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,600 You might as well give the kid a hand. 437 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,760 In a bid to hit 1,000 ounces, 438 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:52,400 Parker needs his mentor, Tony Beets, to become his skivvy. 439 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,320 Oh, you're so welcome. 440 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:09,560 The next day, the king of the Klondike turns up for duty. 441 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,600 PARKER: Glad you made it. 442 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,000 (TONY SPEAKING) 443 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,400 So, maybe you could run our hoe and load a truck. 444 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,080 (TONY SPEAKING) 445 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,120 Sounds good. I'm glad you made it, Tony. 446 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,800 I'm glad you're not. 447 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,640 I just told Tony Beets what to do. 448 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,160 Oh. 449 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,600 (TONY SPEAKING) 450 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,760 The gold mining dream team of Parker, 451 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,360 Rick and Tony work late into the night. 452 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,200 (TONY SPEAKING) 453 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,440 Right on. 454 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,440 After six months mining in the Klondike, 455 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:35,600 Parker heads back to Alaska to reveal his final gold total. 456 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,560 And my grandpa was the one that got me in gold mining 457 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:43,440 and he's been in the hospital in Seattle and he's back home 458 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,520 and I can't wait to share it with him and the rest of my family. 459 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,600 Parker. Hey, Parker. 460 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,760 GRANDFATHER: It's great to see you. You too. 461 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,480 Oh. 462 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,200 You look... You look good. Thank you. 463 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,880 Wait till you see this. 464 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:08,520 Whoa. Look at this. (LAUGHING) 465 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,400 I'm going to the Yukon, 1,000 ounces. 466 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,000 1,029. 467 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,520 Jeez. 468 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,840 I'm overwhelmed. 469 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,080 I never have seen that much gold in my whole life in one time. 470 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,280 Seeing my grandpa's face when we put all that down on the table... 471 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,720 ..made it all worth it. 472 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:38,120 As the young prodigy's ambitions grow, so does his operation. 473 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:44,000 Running two wash plants, Big Red and the wash plant straight out of hell. 474 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,200 Slucifer! 475 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:52,120 Over the years, the plants have been competed in a gold mining showdown. 476 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:57,120 Slucifer produced 859.8 ounces. 477 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,480 With Slucifer bringing in over 21,000 ounces 478 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,160 worth over $31 million. 479 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,360 But old faithful, Big Red takes the crown. 480 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,040 Big Red, let's do this. 481 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,760 Delivering a staggering 26,000 ounces worth 482 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,800 nearly $37 million. 483 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,480 We've been busy down here. 484 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,520 Let's put it that way. RICK: Yeah, buddy. 485 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:25,250 00:32:29.040 -- 00:32:30.880 (TONY SPEAKING) 486 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,840 2020, desperately to cash in on soaring gold prices, 487 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,880 Klondike legend, Tony Beets, has come up with a radical plan. 488 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,560 (TONY SPEAKING) 489 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,800 On Paradise Hill lies a huge pile of waste rocks 490 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,960 left by miners over a half a century ago. 491 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,400 (TONY SPEAKING) 492 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,600 Old timers used hoses to wash valuable paydirt 493 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,800 from the hillside into primitive sluice boxes. 494 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,760 Tony believes this early technology only caught half the gold. 495 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,720 And he's eager to discover if there's a fortune buried in the discarded rocks 496 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,000 at the end of the sluice runs. 497 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,560 (TONY SPEAKING) 498 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,920 MAN: At least check it out. See what's in there. 499 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,880 (TONY SPEAKING) 500 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,200 KEVIN: Shaker's turning on, everyone clear. 501 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,520 Shaker's on. 502 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,520 WOMAN: Here we go. 503 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,680 This is the first bucket of old timers that Tony just found. 504 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,240 (TONY SPEAKING) 505 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,520 Tony runs the plant for 60 hours. 506 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,360 Hi, guys. 507 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,520 To turn a profit and prove his hunch is right, 508 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,440 the tailings need to produce 60 ounces. 509 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,480 (TONY SPEAKING) 510 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,680 RUBY: Ten... 511 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,160 20... 512 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,760 30... 513 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,920 72.12. 514 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,880 Well, it's nice of those old timers to leave us some, eh? 515 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,560 Can't (BLEEP) about that. 516 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:50,880 Tony's plan to prospect gold in the old timers' tailings 517 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,840 proves to be one of his greatest decisions ever, 518 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,040 delivering over 400 ounces 519 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:02,400 worth more than three quarters of a million dollars in gold. 520 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,760 (TONY SPEAKING) 521 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,480 PARKER: This season, we're definitely having to take some bigger risks. 522 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:38,480 2021, after ten seasons mining, 27-year-old Parker Schnabel 523 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:43,120 gambles his reputation on a hunt for his biggest bonanza ever 524 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,000 from a single claim. 525 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:52,080 He toils for four months and spends over $4 million getting down to pay 526 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,120 in Mud Mountain, a 60-foot deep cut, 527 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,280 four times richer than any of his other claims. 528 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:05,840 Success, failure, genius, insanity. 529 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,520 It's all a fine line, right? 530 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,640 Mud Mountain is the deepest cut that we've done so far to date, 531 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,840 and we've put a lot of money and time into it. 532 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,600 We're gonna need to have consistently good clean-ups here 533 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,520 and some really good ones to pay for this. 534 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,280 But in the first two weeks, running... 535 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,480 MITCH: 190.45. 536 00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:34,280 ..Mud Mountain fails to deliver. 537 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,960 We need a lot more gold than that. 538 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,680 Pulling in just 356 ounces. 539 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,040 Send Mitch back to Dud Mountain. 540 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,040 A month before winter hits, 541 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,760 Parker faces the biggest failure of his mining career. 542 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,280 PARKER: Have we figured out where any of the gold is yet? 543 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,840 I just want to pick nuggets out of the (BLEEP) thing. 544 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,920 How the hell? Is that too much to ask? 545 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,320 And this is pretty much all bedrock, huh? Yeah. 546 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,400 You might find some gold in the bedrock if that's where we're at. 547 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,640 I really don't want to be sending bedrock up to the wash plant there 548 00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:24,040 cos we're trying to keep that thing in one piece. 549 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:25,720 Yeah, I get that. 550 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:30,080 But for me, it's just making sure that we get as much gold out of the ground as we can. 551 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,920 In a desperate bid to find the gold, 552 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,520 Parker decides to run the hard, heavy bedrock beneath the pay layer. 553 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,440 If this is what Parker wants to do, risking tearing things up 554 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,200 and breaking (BLEEP) , this is what we're gonna, you know, 555 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:47,960 send through our wash plants here. 556 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,600 FRED LEWIS: This gnarly bedrock that we're pulling out, 557 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,680 it's definitely not easy on our equipment. 558 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,840 It's banging and crashing hard on the shaker deck. 559 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,200 Whoa. 560 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,960 (BLEEP) Holy (BLEEP). 561 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,280 Oh. 562 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,360 PARKER: What the (BLEEP) is going on here? 563 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,040 MITCH: Well, as you can see this motor's jumping all over the place. 564 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:36,880 The reason for that... 565 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,840 this right here, this is the tensioner. 566 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,160 This keeps this motor isolated. 567 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:44,120 And you can see it's broke. 568 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,240 The extra stress of running bedrock has broken a bolt, 569 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,520 holding the shaker deck's motor in place. 570 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,240 MAN: What do you think, guys? 571 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,800 Can we just pull this thing down? Is that bolt gonna be long enough? 572 00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,480 (PARKER SPEAKING) 573 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,440 MITCH: Yeah. Get this thing going again. 574 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,440 (PARKER SPEAKING) Perfect. 575 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,000 We're gonna have to pull this back into place, 576 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,520 re-weld this, see if we can get it fixed. 577 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:14,800 MAN: Watch your eyes. 578 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,600 Thirty seconds or 30 feet. That's my warranty. 579 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,360 Man, I think that's solid. Let's get her fired back up. 580 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,040 Sounds good. Let's try her out. 581 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,240 Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. 582 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,160 Crank it up. 583 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,440 Four days later, the crew gather to see 584 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,680 if Parker's gamble to run bedrock was worth it. 585 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,360 CHRIS: 30, 586 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,680 150, 180, 200. 587 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,760 230, 250. 588 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,240 Keep going, 300, 350, 589 00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:28,760 399.65. 590 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,440 Keep her coming. 591 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,000 So this is on top of 300 and change. 592 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:41,040 We got another 50, another 70, another 84.45. 593 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,920 You must know what those add up to. 594 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,160 484.1 ounces. 595 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:47,840 MITCH: No way. Yeah. 596 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,840 A massive $870,000. 597 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,160 Sweet, man. That was definitely worth the struggle. 598 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,840 That's got to be the best clean-up Big Red's ever had. 599 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:00,520 CHRIS: Yeah. Yeah, it is. 600 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,360 Over the final weeks of the season... 601 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,280 CHRIS: Well, you wanna see what we got? 602 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,400 ..Mud Mountain breaks record. 603 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,760 A total of 596.6 ounces in one week. 604 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,840 MITCH: That's incredible. PARKER: Wow. 605 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,440 After record... CHRIS: And in this one... 606 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:23,800 So, for Mud Mountain, we got 3,058 ounces. 607 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:28,160 ..delivering over $5.5 million in gold 608 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:31,800 and helping Parker to his best ever season haul. 609 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,400 We have 8,309.75 ounces. 610 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,320 (ALL CHEERING) 611 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,120 Cheers, guys. 612 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,800 (ALL CHEERING) 613 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,240 In 12 seasons of mining, 614 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,600 the Hoffmans, Dakota boys, 615 00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,200 Tony, Rick... 616 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,920 ..Fred and Parker, 617 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:12,280 together have banked 83,173 ounces, 618 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:19,960 a mind-blowing 2.6 tons of gold, 619 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:25,800 in 2022 numbers, worth $150 million. 620 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,520 CHRIS: You guys are the best! 621 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,480 Best (BLEEP) crew in the Klondike. 622 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,280 Subtitles by Deluxe 622 00:43:37,305 --> 00:44:37,704 Do you want subtitles for any video? -=[ ai.OpenSubtitles.com ]=-